Convocation Address from SGA President

What is community? I am standing here as the representative of our communal body to invite you all into our shared adventure, and as I attempted to write this speech I kept asking myself multiple questions. What did I need to hear as a first year? How do I imagine and reimagine this community? And…

Posted by Sophia Agtarap on September 7, 2018 in News

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There is no peace

A statement from Emilie M. Townes, dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, regarding the recent events in Gaza. I was shocked into speechlessness and a growing sense of horror, sorrow, and mourning when I opened up my Facebook feed on Monday morning. As the death toll and injury count of Palestinian protestors rose throughout the day,…

Posted by Sophia Agtarap on May 16, 2018 in Feature, News

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Charge to the Graduates of 2018

Delivered by Emilie M. Townes, dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School on May 11, 2018 to the 2018 graduating class. i have no new words for you that you do not already know that you have not already heard that you not already seen or tried to live, if only occasionally sometimes so instead, i will remind…

Posted by Sophia Agtarap on May 14, 2018 in News, commencement

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Religion in the Arts students create projects of community interest

With Commencement on the horizon, students in the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture (RACC) program at Vanderbilt Divinity School have been preparing final projects to complete the requirements for the program’s certificate.  Four of 2018’s certificate recipients are extending their creative reach beyond the Divinity School community to the larger university community and the…

Posted by Sophia Agtarap on March 13, 2018 in News, RACC

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The Holy Nugget of Lent

Each month, Dean Emilie M. Townes writes a letter to alumni and friends in the Divinity School’s e-newsletter, the Spire. We are releasing this month’s reflection early to mark Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40 day season of Lent in the Christian calendar. Here Dean Townes reflects on the meaning of Lent and its…

Posted by Katherine Smith on February 14, 2018 in News, Dean Emilie Townes, Lent, Vanderbilt Divinity School, VDS Faculty

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READ THIS BOOK: FEBRUARY 2018

Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty or administration to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our February recommendation is offered by Amy E. Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life. Dean Steele recommends Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths by Melanie L. Harris (New York: Orbis Press, 2017)….

Posted by Katherine Smith on February 13, 2018 in News, Read This Book, Vanderbilt Divinity School, VDS Faculty, Womanist

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Rattling Bones: A Eulogy for Dale P. Andrews

RATTLING BONES Eulogy for Dale P. Andrews Emilie M. Townes 27 September 2017 Vanderbilt Divinity School Ezekiel 37:1-14 pastoral prayer if we die while being faithful, then death is not the end of life this redaction from an interview dale gave in 2011 was repeated many times on facebook and other social media in the…

Posted by Sophia Agtarap on October 26, 2017 in Feature, News, dale andrews, faculty

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READ THIS BOOK: September 2017

Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our September recommendation is offered by Fernando F. Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. Professor Segovia recommends Requiem for the American Dream by Noam Chomsky (New York-Oakland-London: Seven Stories Press, 2017) and…

Posted by Jeremy Sloderbeck on September 6, 2017 in News, Read This Book, faculty, Read This Book, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt University Graduate School

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WATCH THIS FILM: March 2017

Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book or other artistic or literary work they are currently engaging in their scholarship. Our March recommendation is offered by Dave Perkins, Associate Director of the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program. Dr. Perkins recommends The Mill and…

Posted by Katherine Smith on March 16, 2017 in News

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Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare one to do. We hope…

Posted by Katherine Smith on January 31, 2017 in Alumni/ae Tuesday, News, #vdsalumlife, Alumni/ae Tuesday

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